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Someone asked the question on my post Have You Ever Grown A Purple Carrot, about where they could find purple carrot seeds. So I thought I’d put together a few of my favorite heirloom and unusual seeds resources to help you find purple carrots, and other unusual, and heirloom vegetable seeds.
I’ve linked to the purple carrot seed page on most of these, but they’re also excellent resources for other seeds as well if you take a look around.

Victory Heirloom Seeds
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Seed Savers Exchange

Do you have a favorite source for rare, heirloom, or open-pollinated seeds? Please feel free …read more

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I’m always on the lookout for natural, organic nutrition for my plants, and garden. I get excited when I see a new product that is 100% natural, organic, and environmentally friendly. Cow Wow fits that description.
Cow Wow is a liquid poo compost made from nature’s finest fertilizer – dairy cow manure.
It’s a brand new product, the Cow Wow website just went live yesterday, so go visit and let them know what you think.
The scoop from Cow Wow:
Cow Wow NATURALLY provides immediate, balanced and total nutrition from macro-nutrients N-P-K, and over 81 essential micro-nutrients like manganese, boron, copper, iron, …read more

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It’s cold with a foot of snow on the ground here, so I thought I’d share some great links to help you warm up with the potential to win some great prizes. And a flower to help warm you up inside.
The bloggers in the Lifestyles channel, and the rest of b5media have a ton of giveaways going on right now. Here’s a quick roundup of several of them. Check them out quick, some of them will end Friday night.
This is just a sample, do a little blog hopping and you’ll probably find a ton more.

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First Juice (yep they’re the one’s giving away the juice sample box you can sign up to win, there’s a bonus pack of purple carrot seeds in the box, so you can try your hand at growing your own purple carrots) gave me the fun scoop and the history of carrots, and in particular the purple carrot.
Carrots originated in Ancient Persia, then spread slowly through the Middle East, Africa, and Western Europe. Carrots were originally yellow, white, red, and purple!!! The Dutch turned them orange in the 16th Century to be patriotic for the royal family, the House of Orange.
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First Juice is sponsoring a giveaway here at Mother Earth’s Garden. They’re going to give one reader a sample gift box of First Juices.
The sample gift box will include one 8oz, and one 32oz of Peach Purple Carrot and Blueberry Purple Carrot, along with an 8oz of Apple Carrot and Banana Carrot. Also, it has contains a great starter planter with purple carrot seeds to start growing your own purple carrots!
First Juice is a starter juice for toddlers that has half the sugar of 100% Apple Juice, is USDA Certified Organic, comes in BPA-free and recyclable containers and …read more

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I have several giveaways going on right now on all my blogs. Check them all out for an increased chance to win.
At Play Library:Red or Pink Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Hard DriveLikewise! Party Game by Buffalo Games
Here At Mother Earth’s Garden:Win $35 cash via Paypal from Buzzillions
At She Knows PartiesWholly Salsa Party Packs (5)
At Kid’s Birthday Fun:Balloon Time Helium Balloon Kit
Good luck!

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Buzzillions.com is a product reviews site that features reviews from actual people like you and me, who are verified to have purchased the products they are reviewing.
They don’t sell anything themselves, and they never pay people to submit reviews on Buzzillions so the reviews are completely unbiased. They display all reviews – the good, and the bad. Right now they have more than 4 million reviews on more than 600,000 products and growing.
 
Read reviews on the latest garden gadgets, electronics, digital cameras and more, or add your own review.
What they’re giving away: $35 cash via Paypal to two lucky …read more

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I’m still working on putting together the information for beginning gardeners I promised the other day. In the mean time here’s a video series from Monkey See that is a great tutorial for beginning vegetable gardeners.
Here’s the first video in the series:

 
Check out the rest of the vegetable gardening series here. It’s a wonderful series by Ed Bruske is a Master Gardener and president of D.C. Urban Gardeners.

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My friend Jennifer at Tree Hugging Family pointed this video out to me, so I could share it with Mother Earth’s Garden readers.
The video was created by the nonprofit group Kitchen Gardeners International, the group who’s running the “Eat the View” campaign.
It’s a really cute history you can share with your children on the history of gardens at the White House.

“Eat the View” is a campaign with a goal of returning edible landscapes to the White House.
How can you help? If you’d like to help the cause you can sign the White House Victory Garden Petition.
Jennifer has more details …read more

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I hope everyone had a wonderful week. I have some great links for you this week from Superbowl recipes, to some healthy recipes to help you keep that New Years resolution to be healthier in 2009. Happy reading!
Alphabet Cake Pan~ Personalize your birthday cake with an alphabet cake pan. Make their initials, or their age in cake!
Busy Family Meals~ Vindaloo sauce can be used to flavor meats, but we like it best as a vegetarian delight!
Chocolate Covered Buttercrunch Bars~ Chocolate and buttercrunch treats made with a surprise ingredient.
Cooking Gadgets~ Space saving genius: collapsible colanders!
From here at Mother Earth’s Garden, …read more

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